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		Tum Africanus: Sentio, inquit, te sedem etiam nunc hominum ac domum contemplari; quae si tibi parva, ut est, ita videtur, haec caelestia semper spectato, illa humana contemnito.
		But all their talk is limited to those narrow regions which you look upon, nor will any man�s reputation endure very long, for what men say �dies with them and is blotted out with the forgetfulness of posterity.�
		Let what others say of you be their own concern; whatever it is, they will say it in any case.
	www.ldysinger.com /MONS_423/01A_Vis1_Pla_Cic/05_Cic_Scipio.htm

	Forum Romanum
		Scipio Africanus is the best general that Rome, in
		Scipio Africanus served Rome and cared about her
		Given different circumstances there's no reason he couldn't have been in the league of Africanus, Marius, Sulla, Pompey or Caesar.
	www.novaroma.org /forum/mainlist/2000/2000-11-19.html (1729 words)

	Cicero's "The Dream of Scipio"
		After a royal entertainment our talk again draw out into the far night, when the old man would speak of nothing save the elder Scipio {Africanus Major): everything about him he remembered, not only his deeds, but even his sayings.
		But do thou cultivate justice and piety, 0 Scipio, following in the steps of thy Grandsire and of myself, who begat thee.
		When I recognised him, I trembled indeed: he, however, speaking said, " Take courage and banish fear, Scipio ; commit to memory what I have to say." " Seest thou yonder City, which, compelled by me to submit to the Roman people, yet renews its former wars, unable to remain at peace ?
	members.iinet.net.au /~quentinj/Christianity/DreamScipio.html (2014 words)

	Feminae Romanae: The Women of Ancient Rome
		Cornelia was the daughter of legendary warrior-hero Publius Scipio Africanus (who defeated Hannibal in the second Punic War).
		A legend preserved by Valerius Maximus claims that, when another woman who was a guest in her house "...showed her jewelry, the finest in existence at that period, Cornelia kept her in talk until her children came home from school, and then said 'These are my jewels.'" Valerius Maximus, IV.4.
		Cornelia herself would become an icon to later women who, like Livia, wanted her reputation as well as genuine power.
	dominae.fws1.com /Influence/Cornelia/Index.html (1079 words)

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